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Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques

Omar Alonso
Amazon, US
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Northeastern University, US

2024

In the last decade, deep learning and word embeddings have made significant impacts on information retrieval (IR) by adding techniques based in neural networks and language models. At the same time, certain search modalities such as neural IR and ...

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Formal Methods for Safe Autonomy: Data-driven Verification, Synthesis, and Applications

Chuchu Fan
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ACM Books

2024

There are significant financial and legal implications for ensuring design correctness and safety in autonomous systems. This book introduces new verification and synthesis algorithms to provide certifiable trusts for real-world autonomous systems. On ...

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Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W

Gloria Childress Townsend
Department of Computer Science, DePauw University

2024

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has more than 100,000 members circling the globe, including trailblazing women who created ACM-W (ACM’s Committee on Women in Computing) in 1993. This book, published in celebration of ACM-W’s 30th birthday, ...

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Pick, Click, Flick!: The Story of Interaction Techniques

Brad A. Myers
Carnegie Mellon University

2024

This book provides a comprehensive study of the many ways to interact with computers and computerized devices. An “interaction technique” starts when the user performs an action that causes an electronic device to respond, and includes the direct ...

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Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do

Ronald M. Baecker
University of Toronto (Computer Science Department)
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Jonathan Grudin
University of Washington (Information School)

2024

This book offers a compelling discussion of the digital dreams that have come true, their often unintended side effects (nightmares), and what must be done to counteract the nightmares. It is intended as an impetus to further conversation not only in ...

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Spatial Gems, Volume 2

John Krumm
Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Andreas Züfle
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Cyrus Shahabi
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2024

Spatial gems are computational techniques for processing spatial data. This book, a follow-up to the first Spatial Gems volume, is a further collection of techniques contributed by leading research experts. Although these approaches were developed by ...

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